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Portuguese navigators, Dutch settlers, English colonists, pirates and privateers, the armies and navies of two great nations; smugglers and slavetraders, captains of ocean packets and clipper ships, towboat- and longshoremen, the adventurers and seafarers of all nations throng the pages of this history of the world’s greatest seaport.

This is a republication of a seminal work about New York City’s waterfront which begins with the formation of New York Harbor in the Ice Age and covers the history of the great seaport through when the book was first published in 1941. The Going Coastal edition includes a new prologue that offers an anthology of the book, a new foreword providing a tour of the Port of New York today, and a new epilogue summarizing port developments from 1941 to modern times.